Polarimetry

Solar speckle polarimetry

The combination of a polarimeter with real-time frame selection and differential speckle imaging results in diffraction-limited magnetograms that provide new insight into the morphology of solar small-scale magnetic fields. The method to record …

High Spatial Resolution Magnetograms of Solar Active Regions

Using the Universal Birefringent Filter at the Sacramento Peak Vacuum Tower Telescope we have obtained simultaneous observations of left and right circular polarization in various solar magnetic features with a resulting spatial resolution of 0''.7 …

Dependence of the properties of solar magnetic flux tubes on filling factor. II - Results of an inversion approach

The dependence of the properties of solar magnetic elements on the magnetic filling factor is studied using Stokes V spectra of three lines observed near the center of the solar disk. The inversion technique developed by Keller et al. (1990) is …

Solar magnetic field strength determinations from high spatial resolution filtergrams

Circularly polarized images with high spatial resolution (better than 1 arcsec) of a solar active region, obtained with a tunable filter in the wings of Fe I 5247.1 A and Fe I 5250.2 A, have been analyzed in terms of the magnetic line ratio technique …

HARPS Polarimeter

The HARPS instrument at La Silla, Chile is famous for its planet detections through the radial velocity method. We upgraded it to a precise spectropolarimeter by replacing the obsolete Iodine cell in the Cassegrain adapter with a dual-beam polarimetry unit.